Dustin Dwyer
Dustin Dwyer is a reporter for a new project at Michigan Radio that will look at improving economic opportunities for low-income children. Previously, he worked as an online journalist for Changing Gears, as a freelance reporter and as Michigan Radio's West Michigan Reporter. Before he joined Michigan Radio, Dustin interned at NPR's Talk of the Nation, wrote freelance stories for The Jackson Citizen-Patriot and completed a Reporting & Writing Fellowship at the Poynter Institute.
Dustin earned his bachelor's degree from the University of South Florida. He's also lived in Colorado, California, Oregon and Washington D.C. He's always happy to explain - with detached journalistic objectivity - why Michigan is a better place to live than any of the others.
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The case involves a fingerprinting policy the city says it ended in 2015.
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The candidates debated Wednesday night in Grand Rapids.
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Dozens of Juneteenth events are taking place this weekend across the state. Check out these highlights from Detroit, Ann Arbor, Lansing, Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids and more.
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Police officer Christopher Schurr has already been charged with second-degree murder for the shooting, but the city said he was entitled to a discharge hearing before being fired. Now, the city says he "waived" his right to the hearing.
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D.A. Blodgett - St. Johns says there's a severe shortage of beds available for emergency foster care. So now it's offering more incentives to attract volunteers.
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More electric vehicle chargers coming to state parks along Lake Michigan this summer.
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An attorney for Lyoya's family says he doesn't see a conflict in the contribution. Some other Grand Rapids community leaders want the prosecutor to recuse himself.
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The detail seemed apparent in videos released by GRPD last week, but the autopsy results confirm it. Lyoya's family has called the police shooting an "execution."
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Police in Grand Rapids have released videos of an incident earlier this month when an unnamed officer shot a Black man in the back of his head following an apparent struggle for the officer's Taser.
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For years, people in Grand Rapids have warned that the tactics of the city's police department would lead to death. Last week Patrick Lyoya, an unarmed Black man, was shot.